The computer science department sponsors a weekly seminar series presented by a combination of department faculty, graduate students and external speakers. All seminars are held at 10:00 a.m. in room 209 of the Computer Science Building, unless otherwise stated. Regular attendance is required of all graduate students. An archive of departmental seminars can be found here. Seminar syllabus can be found here.
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Departmental Seminars 2017-2018
Fall 2017
Dr. Thomas BaEck | Seminar Speaker
Leiden University
Talk title: Evolutionary Strategies for Industrial Applications: Algorithms and Examples
Date and venue: Monday, August 21, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Sajal Das | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: How to Do Excellent Research and Write Winning Grant Proposals?
Date and venue: Monday, August 28, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Prasad P. Calyam | Seminar Speaker
University of Missouri-Columbia
Talk title: Visual Cloud Computing and Edge Networking: Foundations and Application Case Studies
Date and venue: Monday, September 11, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Kenneth Calvert | Seminar Speaker
Division Director of Computer and Network Systems, CISE/NSF
Talk title: An Overview of CISE Research Programs and Directions
Date and venue: Monday, September 18, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Jiayu Zhou | Seminar Speaker
Michigan State University
Talk title: Recent Advances in Multi-Task Learning
Date and venue: Monday, September 25, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Gautham Pallapa | Seminar Speaker
Enterprise Platform Engineering West Corporation
Talk title: Continuous Experimentation at Enterprise Scale
Date and venue: Monday, October 16, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Jeff Cawlfield | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: S&T's Academic Integrity Policies
Date and venue: Monday, October 30, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. George Markowsky | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: Guy Fawkes and the Internet
Date and venue: Monday, November 6, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Haoyi Xiong | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: Some Practical Inverse Problems in Scalable Data Analytics
Date and venue: Monday, November 13, 2017 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Spring 2018
Ravi Sahu | Seminar Speaker
Strayos
Talk title: Transforming heavy industries using computer vision and drone technology
Date and venue: Monday, January 22, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Bruce McMillin | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: How to write and present a research proposal
Date and venue: Monday, January 29, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Chief Doug Roberts | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T Police
Talk title: A discussion into electronic financial crimes investigations and the use of emerging technology in campus security, from the perspective of a former supervisor with the United States Secret Service and the current Chief of the University Police Department
Date and venue: Monday, February 5, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. George Markowsky | Seminar Speaker
Missouri S&T
Talk title: Introduction to Mathematical Word Processing
Date and venue: Monday, February 12, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. George Markowsky | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Introduction to Mathematical Word Processing II
Date and venue: Monday, February 19, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Juan Figueroa | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Introduction to SBIR Grants
Date and venue: Monday, February 26, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Stephan Eidenbenz| Seminar Speaker
Talk title: How long will it take? Predicting Computational Physics Code Runtime Through Parallel Discrete Event Simulation Models
Date and venue: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 9:00 a.m. in B10 Bertelsmeyer Hall
Long Cheng | Faculty Candidate
Talk title: Program Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Systems
Date and venue: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. in 203 Computer Science
Dr. Cheng-Hsin Hsu | Faculty Candidate
Talk title: Programmable, Managed, and Optimized Internet-of-Things Analytics in a Fog Computing Platform
Date and venue: Friday, March 2, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. in 203 Computer Science
Dong Chen | Faculty Candidate
Talk title: Safeguarding User Privacy in the CPS Energy Systems
Date and venue: Monday, March 5, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Kecheng Yang | Faculty Candidate
Talk title: Real-Time Scheduling for Cyber-Physical Systems on Heterogeneous Platforms
Date and venue: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dong Dai | Faculty Candidate
Talk title: Building HPC Storage Infrastructure for Data-Intensive Science
Date and venue: Friday, March 9, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. in 203 Computer Science
Dr. Sarah Hercula | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Effective Writing Practices in the STEM Fields: An Illustration and Overview of Resources
Date and venue: Monday, March 12, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
George Kneuper | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: After Taking the Red Pill: Army Modeling and Simulations
Date and venue: Monday, March 19, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Matthew C. Moen | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Restoring Civility in American Democracy: Lessons from Gettysburg and Lincoln
Date and venue: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 | 11:00 a.m. in 104 Physics
Dr. Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla | Smart Living Faculty Candidate Seminar
Talk title: Towards the Design of Cyber-Physical-Human Systems from Security and Behavioral Viewpoints
Date and venue: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. George Markowsky | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Introduction to Category Theory
Date and venue: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science
Dr. Jonathan D. Farley | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: Matchings in the Permutation Lattice
Date and venue: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 9:30 a.m. in 327 Computer Science
Jimmy Soni | Seminar Speaker
Talk title: The Life of Claude Shannon
Date and venue: Monday, April 30, 2018 | 10:00 a.m. in 209 Computer Science